Category: Festivals
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AV Festival: Colossal Youth
Shot on DV using only natural light assisted by reflective surfaces, 2006’s Colossal Youth (Juventude…
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AV Festival: The Turin Horse
Graced with the best opening scene of a film in recent memory, The Turin Horse…
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AV Festival: Hors Satan
Even before he brandishes a shotgun and kills a man, there’s something very unsettling about…
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AV Festival: Once upon a Time in Anatolia
A further move away from the more autobiographical concerns of earlier works, Nuri Bilge Ceylan‘s…
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AV Festival: Five
In explaining his 2003 minimalist experimentation, Five, Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami posits that “we should…
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AV Festival: Aurora
This review contains spoilers A long film about killing, Aurora (2010) is Romanian writer-director Cristi…
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AV Festival: Russian Ark
If, as Sergei Eisenstein put it, “montage is the nerve of cinema” – the master-tool,…
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AV Festival: Stalker
Stalker (1979), adapted by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky from their own 1971 novel, Roadside Picnic, was…
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AV Festival: Double Tide
When Sharon Lockhart couldn’t be present for the AV Festival 2012’s screening of her film…
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AV Festival: Nightfall
With the swell in recent years of visual artists looking to cinema as an outlet…